Bolt



Dec. 20, 1927. 1,653,015

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- UNITED FERDINAND FREDERICK KOELLN,

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Application filed November 1, 1926. Serial No. 145,501.

This invention relates to manually shiftable bolts,'used for locking doors, windows, sashes, covers, boxes and the like.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a device of simple construction which requires little handwork in the manufacturing and assembling, the base being stamped out of one piece of sheet metal, the from one piece and provided with a groove and a hole in its underside, and a spring being provided in the groove and hole between the bolt and the base. 1 I I Other objects will appear from the following description and appended claim as well as from the accompanying drawing, in whichr Fig. 1 is a longitudinal midsectional view of a device embodying this invention;

Fig. 2 is a cross-section on'line 22 of Fig. 1.' 1 V Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the baseplate of the device.

Devices of this kind are commonly applied to the surface in such a manner that the shiftable bolt can be used to look a door, or sash, or cover in relation to a framestructure.

As illustrated in the drawing, the baseplate 4 is preferably stamped out of one piece of sheet metal with the lugs 5 extending from the side-edges of the plate, having holes 6 by which the base-platecan be fastened to the surface, and having certain portions? out along edges 8 and then depressed,

- while'in the cutting or forming dies, into proper shape to allow an insertion of a bolt between the portions 7 and the base-plate. A bolt 9 is illustrated. in proper position in Figs. 1 and 2. This bolt is provided with a groove 10 in its underside and a hole 11. A spring 12 is provided with a hook-end 13 which the spring is held against shifting ing this hook-end 13 disposed in the hole 11 p of the bolt. The larger portion of the spring 1211s of a shape that the groove 10 in the underside of thebolt. This spring 12, however, is bent in order to serve as a friction means between the bolt and the base-plate 4.

I .The shape'of the spring in being bent serves also as a stopping means for the shiftsheet metal having .cuts

bolt can be to the bolt 9 by havit may be pressed into ing movements of the bolt in relation to the base-plate. The free end 14 of the spring 12 is intended to drop into one of the cut-outs, from which the portions 7 have been depressed, so that this free end 14 of the spring abuts against the rearmost edge within the rearmost cut-out against one of the edges 8,

as clearly'illustrated in' Fig. 1. The bolt 9 can be shifted outwardly until the frontside 15 of the upwardly bent handle portion of the bolt abuts against the rearmost v edge ofthe rearmost portion 7, indicated proper positionwithin the spring out of the cut-outs to point above the base4' to allow a rearward shifting of the bolt from its locking position in the base-plate.

. In a device of the class described, a bolt made out of one piece being bent at one upwardly to form a handle-portion and having anclongated recess in its underside,

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Having thus described my invention, I; claim: s

a-base' plate stamped out of one piece of derside and portionsbetween pairs of cuts depressed to project upwardly, above the topmade from the unside in the form of loops through which said.

shiftably' mounted above the base-plate, and a spring inserted one direction with the saidhandle-portion forming a stop for the bolt to abut against said loop-portion in the opposite direction.

I into said recess ofthe bolt between the bolt and the by the said In testimony that I claim the foregoing I as my mventionI have signed my name.

FERDINAND FREDERICK KOELLN. 

